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Culinary comedy · d20 rulebook
Service!
- Solo
- Difficulty 2 of 3
- Not recommended under 10
- Available in: Français, English, Español, Deutsch, Italiano
You inherit the Lighthouse Inn: twelve covers facing the sea, a kitchen to rebuild and debts. The village bets you'll close before winter. You're aiming for the star.
The rulebook at a glance
- d20 + attribute
- 4 attributes
- The rush
Choose an adventure
- Campaign
The Star
4 sessions · good food, village, perseverance
Cost: 4 Dice for the whole table
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The world
- PlaceThe Lighthouse InnTwelve covers, a dining room with black beams, a kitchen straight out of the sixties and a terrace that looks out over the sea. Closed since last winter.
- PlaceKerlannA fishing port of eight hundred people, a fish market in the morning, a bakery, a bar-tobacconist where people bet on everything, and the lighthouse at the end of the pier.
- PlaceThe fish marketAt six o'clock, under the market hall: the catch of the day, the fish merchants, and the skippers who only sell their best to people they know.
- PlaceThe PointThe villa with a panoramic view above the harbour, bought by the Delcourt Group to turn into a sixty-cover "gourmet" restaurant.
- FactionThe Delcourt GroupA chain of prestige restaurants, twelve addresses, one star per address or nearly. Its regional director, Antoine Delcourt, wants the inn too.
- FactionThe GuideThe guide that gives stars and takes them away. Its inspectors never introduce themselves, eat alone and pay in cash.
- CharacterRozennYour great-aunt, eighty-four years old, who ran the inn for fifty years and gives her opinion from her armchair by the stove. She has seen everything, tasted everything.
- CharacterMaëlThe fisherman of the Rozenn-II, who delivers at dawn and never talks about what he did before he came to Kerlann, ten years ago. He tastes everything in silence.
- CharacterAntoine DelcourtRegional director of the group, flawless suit, sincere smile: he truly believes that buying the inn would be doing you a favour.
- CharacterMadame Le GoffThe mayor of Kerlann, who also runs the bar-tobacconist, the betting book and the Lighthouse Festival.
The rulebook
Resolving actions
- Roll 1d20 and add the attribute's modifier: 10 or more makes a decent dish, 13 a dish people notice, 16 a dish they talk about all the way to the next harbour.
- A natural 20 silences the dining room; a natural 1 succeeds…
- at something other than planned, which may become a recipe.
Initiative : 1d20 + Technique modifier
Attributes
- Palate PAL
- Tasting, seasoning, guessing an ingredient with your eyes closed.
- Technique TEC
- Cutting, searing, whisking up a sauce, keeping up the pace.
- Composure COM
- Surviving the rush, taking the chef's shouting, saving a dish.
- Charm CHA
- The dining room, the suppliers, the kitchen crew: making people love your cooking.
Special rules
- The rush
- During service, each round is a dish going out: a success and the dining room feasts; a failure and the plate comes back. Three plates sent back in one service, and the dining room empties (−2 to all rolls until the next successful service).
- The recipe notebook
- Every noticed dish (13 or more) goes into the notebook under a name chosen by the player. A dish from the notebook can be made again without a roll, and the menu for the star will be made of its pages.
- The fish market
- Each session, the Storyteller announces what the sea and the market have brought: the catch of the day, the neighbour's vegetables, what is missing. Cooking with the produce of the day gives +2; ordering out of season costs a lot, and word gets around.
Character creation
Roll 4 dice with 6 faces per attribute, keep the 3 best · 2 rerolls allowed4d6kh3
Origins
- Family cooking
- Grew up in the inn's kitchen during the summers; +1 to Palate.
- Catering school
- Qualified, methodical, clean hands — has never run a kitchen alone; +1 to Technique.
- Career change
- Dropped everything in the city to come and cook here; +1 to Composure.
Vocations
- Saucier
- Stocks, jus, the soul of a plate.
- Pastry chef
- Precision to the gram, sugar that forgives everything.
- Roast cook
- Fire, meat, fish, cooking things just right.
- Cold-kitchen cook
- Raw, chilled, inventing something out of nothing.
Derived values
- Hit points
- 8 + Composure modifier
- Defense
- 10 + Technique modifier
- Initiative
- 1d20 + Technique modifier
Starting equipment
- A well-sharpened paring knife
- The great-aunt's recipe notebook, half faded
- The keys to the inn, a bunch of twelve
Veils
Topics kept off screen: the Narrator never shows or describes them.
- heavy humiliation